Social Impact

Ann Lefebvre developed a community-based network to serve women in rural areas of her adopted home state, South Carolina.

Trojan and Bruin faculty and students often work together to tackle societal challenges and spark discovery in medicine, technology and more. (They even play games together!)

The Los Angeles Service Academy, a program of USC Dornsife’s Huntington-USC Institute on California, offers students a hands-on introduction to how L.A. works.

USC Price grads Thomas Wong and Paul Lee joined with their fellow city officials and non-profit organizations to hold community events to bring people together.

The restored field at Manzanar Relocation Center celebrates the resiliency of so many prisoners and memorializes this dark period in U.S. history. Susan H. Kamei of USC Dornsife’s Spatial Sciences Institute shares their story.

Less-educated and lower income neighborhoods are consistently farther away from cultural institutions that can help advance social mobility, according to a study co-authored by USC Price Professor Elizabeth Currid-Halkett.

Falling birth rates and lower migration are reducing the number of young people, while older residents age in place. USC Price’s Dowell Myers looks as the “top heavy” age imbalance and offers ways to cope with it.

Trojans reflect on USC’s premier college-access program, the Neighborhood Academic Initiative, as it celebrates its 35th year.

USC Annenberg releases a new study exploring the gender and race/ethnicity of hosts and guests of popular podcasts.

The research initiative aims to create ethical, human-forward outcomes for cutting edge technology like AI.